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DSF to FLAC conversion issue
HandLogger:
First things first, I want to be clear that I'm an old school stereo guy who's just getting into digital, so please go easy on an old vet...
After successfully employing MC28 to rip some of the CDs in our collection, I decided to move on to ripping the stereo and multichannel SACDs we own, but that proved to be much more challenging. Long story short, I managed to use Sonore IOS2DSD to perform our very first stereo SACD rip, which rendered individual DSF tracks. After discovering that our AVP isn't spec'd for DSD, we noticed that the Oppo was reporting the track type as "DSD to PCM," which was further in evidence by the "PCM" indicator on the 105's front panel. It's interesting to note that, despite the Oppo [apparently] converting the DSD/DSF to PCM, the music sounded fine: at this point.
Considering that our AVP isn't able to handle DSD/DSF, we decided that there wasn't much sense sticking with the format, so we used MC28 to convert all of the digital files from our first SACD rip to FLAC...
THE RESULTS: When I play the freshly-converted DSF to FLAC files on our MacBook Pro, they sound fine. When I play them over the network, through the Oppo, the playback timer slows way down and the tracks sound like they're being played at the same slow pace.
If anyone has any thoughts about this strange occurrence, I'd love to read them. Thank you very much. :)
HaWi:
I am using Trax to convert SACD to FLAC and it works perfectly. It's payware but worth every penny to me.
HandLogger:
That's great, HaWi. ;D
When you write that TRAX payware "...works perfectly," are you saying that you don't hear any degradation in sound quality going from DSF to PCM (FLAC). Would you mind elaborating a bit more on the file types you're working with?
To clarify, we've only ripped one stereo SACD, thus far, using ISO2DVD. The result was individual tracks in the DSF file format. By "SACD to FLAC," do you mean DSF to FLAC. Once again, we're old-school analog stereo people, so please bear with me here. ;)
HandLogger:
In addition to what I wrote in my last message, HaWi, I was wondering how much file organizing you're doing with Trax? I see that you're employing JRiver MC28 for Mac, so now I'm wondering how you've got things set up? In short, I'd like to know how you use Trax with MC28 to make your music life better?
HaWi:
--- Quote from: HandLogger on August 03, 2021, 01:20:12 pm ---That's great, HaWi. ;D
When you write that TRAX payware "...works perfectly," are you saying that you don't hear any degradation in sound quality going from DSF to PCM (FLAC). Would you mind elaborating a bit more on the file types you're working with?
To clarify, we've only ripped one stereo SACD, thus far, using ISO2DVD. The result was individual tracks in the DSF file format. By "SACD to FLAC," do you mean DSF to FLAC. Once again, we're old-school analog stereo people, so please bear with me here. ;)
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I don't have a SACD player but I download ripped SACD (mostly 2/5.1) from online sources. Trax reads the .iso file and allows me to convert both the 2-channel and the 5/6 channel section, if they exist, separately, directly to FLAC (or other containers/formats).
After conversion with Trax (iso > FLAC), I am very happy with the quality but haven't compared to the original.
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